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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






3. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






4. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






5. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






7. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






8. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






9. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






11. Open syllable






12. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






14. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






15. Closed syllable






16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






17. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






18. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






19. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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21. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






22. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






23. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






24. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






26. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






27. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






28. Final stable syllable

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29. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






30. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






31. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






32. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






33. Individual Educational Plan






34. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






35. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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36. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






37. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






38. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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39. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






40. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






41. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






42. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






43. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






44. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






45. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






46. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






47. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






48. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






49. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.